When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Bebington The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Bebington
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Bebington "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Bebington
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Bebington Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Bebington
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Bebington The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Bebington
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Bebington "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Bebington
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Bebington I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Bebington
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Bebington "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bebington
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Bebington I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Bebington
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Bebington Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Bebington
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Bebington "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bebington
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Bebington People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Bebington
